Manage Every Submittal from One Dashboard
Coordinate submittals across all trades, track approvals, and keep your project on schedule.
Submittal management, built for general contractors
For a general contractor, submittals are a logistics problem before they are a technical one. Every trade — mechanical, electrical, plumbing, glazing, casework, roofing — owes you product data, and each one runs on its own schedule and level of urgency. You are the hub: chasing subs for late submissions, logging what came in, routing packages to the architect and engineer of record, and tracking which items are approved, approved-as-noted, or rejected and back in someone's court. Miss one on a long-lead item and it becomes a schedule slip you own.
The Submittal Builder takes the heaviest part of that burden off your plate. Point the AI agent at a subcontractor's scope or the project schedule, and it finds the manufacturer cut sheets, matches part numbers to what was specified, and compiles a review-ready package — often before the sub would have gotten around to it. When a submittal comes back incomplete or a product does not match the spec, the Builder surfaces the mismatch immediately, so you are not the one who discovers it three weeks later when the reviewer bounces it.
That means fewer rejection cycles, tighter turnaround on approvals, and a clean, centralized log of status across every trade. Instead of reconstructing where each submittal stands from email threads and phone calls, your project engineers see the whole board at once. Submittal.app is free to start at user.submittal.app/signup/builder, so you can put it to work on your most submittal-heavy trade first and measure the time saved before scaling it across the job.
The Challenges You Face
We understand the unique pressures of your role.
Coordinating submittals from dozens of subcontractors simultaneously
Tracking which submittals are approved and which need resubmission
Managing procurement timelines to avoid project delays
Ensuring all products meet specification requirements before ordering
Keeping documentation organized for close-out packages
How Submittal.app Helps
Purpose-built tools for your workflow.
Frequently asked questions
How do general contractors track submittal status across all trades?
Most GCs still stitch status together from spreadsheets, email, and PM software that each sub updates differently. Submittal.app centralizes the log so every item — pending, approved, approved-as-noted, or rejected — is visible in one place. Because the Submittal Builder assembles packages directly from the schedule, your team sees which trades are complete and which are lagging without chasing each sub for an update.
How can a GC speed up subcontractor submittals on long-lead items?
Long-lead items fail when a sub is slow to compile product data. The Submittal Builder lets your team generate a review-ready package straight from the schedule, finding cut sheets and matching part numbers without waiting on the sub. You can get long-lead submittals into the reviewer's hands early, protecting procurement dates that would otherwise drive a schedule slip.
Why do submittals get rejected and how can a general contractor reduce rework?
Rejections usually trace to missing data, wrong part numbers, or products that quietly deviate from the specification. The Submittal Builder checks each proposed product against the specified requirements before the package ever reaches the architect or engineer, flagging mismatches up front. Catching those errors early collapses the review cycle and keeps a rejected submittal from stalling a critical-path activity.
Who is responsible for coordinating submittals on a construction project?
The general contractor owns coordination — collecting submittals from every subcontractor, logging them, routing them to the design team, and tracking approvals back to the field. It is administrative-heavy work that scales badly across trades. Submittal.app absorbs much of it by assembling and organizing packages automatically, letting your project engineers manage the review flow instead of manually assembling documents.
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